Summary: Trim clay pottery salsa bowl while still on the pottery wheel. Clean off the bottom of a bowl before trimming it as demonstrated in this free pottery lesson from a ceramics expert.
Chris Cook received a BFA in ceramics and sculpture from Southern Oregon University where he studied raku, studio ceramics, stoneware, and various firing techniques under Jim Romberg....read more
"Ok, now you want to go and clean up the bottom. And I made this to where all you have to do is cut it off of the, because there will be no trimming involved because we will not be able to trim it because those bowls will be inside of it. So, any trimming you do want to do it right here on the wheel. Just like that. And, you want to make sure to get any of that extra debris out of there. And, if something like that comes out, that is pretty cool. Save it over there, you might want to do something with it later. Alright. I believe I bumped the bowl while I was doing that so let us go see if I warped it. No, it is cool. Alright. So, now that we got that, all we have to do is run our wire through it and attach our bowls."